LWN: Comments on "X11R7.7 released" https://lwn.net/Articles/500747/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "X11R7.7 released". en-us Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:47:42 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:47:42 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net X11R7.7 released https://lwn.net/Articles/502117/ https://lwn.net/Articles/502117/ whot <div class="FormattedComment"> GNOME3 already uses this to block the movement of the pointer from the Activities menu (if placed on the right monitor) to the left monitor.<br> <p> I believe Unity uses it in some way too, Chris Halse-Rogers has been working on the protocol to add threshold-based pointer barriers (if you move fast enough, you can push through a barrier).<br> </div> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:53:41 +0000 X11R7.7 released https://lwn.net/Articles/501333/ https://lwn.net/Articles/501333/ jospoortvliet <div class="FormattedComment"> Love the idea of 'pointer barriers' - looking forward to implementations :D<br> </div> Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:30:04 +0000